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Detroit has leg up for convention

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Monday April 28, 2014 6:15 AM

I couldn’t help but chuckle at the WednesdayDispatcharticle “Dems still considering Columbus” for the 2016 Democratic
National Convention. The chuckle wasn’t for Columbus, but for Detroit, also in the running for the
convention.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, was quoted in the
story that the city chosen would need to share “our values of equality, inclusion, diversity,
respect and dignity.” Also, the winning city will have “strong relationships with organized labor
and those they represent.”

Detroit should win the convention in a landslide. After 50 years of Democratic mayors and
extravagant auto-workers and teachers-union contracts, the city is bankrupt and has only half the
population it did in 1970. Ask Detroit residents how liberal values and relationships worked out
for them.